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The Bible

Minority Pakistani Christian children play in front of The Bible Fellowship Church at the Alama Iqbal Colony in Islamabad on March 26, 2012. Pakistan, the second largest Muslim country after Indonesia with a population of 177, has some 2.8 million minority Christians which amount to 1.6% of its population. Christians and other religious minorities claim they are discriminated against in the country's constitution, where most are generally poverty-stricken and marginalised.

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    the moral and intellectual laziness of throwing rocks, then hiding inside Scripture. It is a reminder, too.You don't go to the Bible to hide. You go there to seek. Leonard Pitts Jr., winner of the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for commentary, is a columnist for the   Read more »

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About The Bible

Bible refers to respective collections of religious writings of Judaism and of Christianity. The exact composition of the Bible is dependent on the religious traditions of specific denominations. Modern Rabbinic Judaism generally recognizes a single set of canonical books that comprise the Tanakh, the Jewish version of the Bible. The Christian Bible includes the same books as the Tanakh (referred to in this context as the Old Testament), but usually in a different order, together with specifically Christian books collectively called the New Testament. Among some Christian traditions, the Bible includes additional Jewish books that were not accepted into the Tanakh.

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